For those within the NBA who believe that the Los Angeles clippers should be punished for an alleged salary limit reversed with Kawhi Leonard, they quote that there is already sufficient indirect evidence that has already been established, reports Jake Fischer.
On page 341 of the latest collective negotiation agreement of the competition on the basis of Article XIII entitled “Circumvention”, the punishment can be issued against a team or player as a violation of unauthorized agreements “can be proven by direct or indirect evidence.”
The NBA has opened an investigation into the clippers and although the report of Pablo Torre does not yet have to find a guideline of everyone who is associated with the team to pay Leonard through Aspiration, there is sufficient detailed evidence in the eyes of rival team managers.
Further contribution to the indirect evidence argument is that Leonard had a “no-show” approval contract and countless sources tell Fischer that the annual salary of $ 7 million is well above “fair market value”. According to Torre, the approval agreement was above what he made in his shoe agreement with New Balance.
One agent Fischer, however, spoke to the fact that the combination of aspiration is an illegal company that is not familiar with the sports industry, could have led them plausible to make a bad deal directly with the Leonard camp. For example, aspiration offered the clippers a sponsorship agreement of $ 300 million Jersey in 23 years, which was a much longer structure than any other team.
The clippers claim that Dennis Robertson was the one who was looking for and negotiated the deal with aspiration.
During the press conference of Adam Silver on Wednesday, he suggested that the “burden” is evidence of the NBA investigation to prove that the clippers were immediately involved to give a punishment to the franchise instead of strictly indirect evidence.
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